Paula Banholzer (6 August 1901 – 25 February 1989) was an educator and first love of Bertolt Brecht, who was born in Markt Wald and died in Augsburg.
The daughter of the physician Carl Banholzer, she was born and grew up in the Middle-Swabian Markt Wald in the present-day district of Unterallgäu.
[1] After the birth, Banholzer resumed her love affair with Brecht, who now lived in Munich.
In July 1921 Banholzer took a first distancing step, when she accepted a position as an educator in Nuremberg.
When Brecht, now married to Marianne Zoff, learned in February 1924 of Banholzer's marriage intentions with her future husband, the Augsburg merchant Hermann Gross, he sent Helene Weigel to Augsburg to fetch "Bi" to Berlin.